MattyV6
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Our club is called South West Indoor RC!
https://www.facebook.com/South-West-Indoor-RC-262447823948047/
We race on the edge of the Cornwall and Devon boarder, each Thursday night. We started out in a barn, a fairly damp barn, then moved into a nice warm permanent venue for a couple of years, but we are on the move again!........and the new place is Massive!! ??
Thursday nights will never be the same again! We will be at the new venue from the first week in December.
The tracks are going to be big, something you would expect for a weekend full day race event, but on a Thursday night!
Please click on the link for more information and pregress over the coming weeks.
Doors open at 5.30. Racing will start at 7.15 sharp and finish by 10.30. One class is £7, 2 classes is £10 ?
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The new venue is MASSIVE!!!!
Click the link for more info and progress
https://www.facebook.com/South-West-Indoor-RC-262447823948047/
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Pictures will be uploaded tonight along with the championship points so far
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Hi Ian sorry it sold through a Facebook post i put up last night about 5 mins after i posted this advert. It was a cracking car, i'm sad to see it go
Not sure about the pm's, i will have a look now.
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Hi I'm selling my spare micro, it's an EMB-1 and comes as a complete setup thats ready to race. Charge it up and go
Price is £130 posted or £120 picked up from either The Eurotech Arena in Plymouth or TRAC (Torbay)
This is a very good price considering what you are getting, the car is set up ready to race. I lent it to a friend who entered the Torbay Micro National round with us and he did very well with it.
What's included....
It comes with 5 shells, 1 brand new and ready to paint. 5 lipos (2 of the balance leads need soldering but work/charge spot on), charger, power supply, wheel transmitter, 1 receiver, 1 LC racing 28mm motor, 1 unbranded 28mm motor, 7 sets of wheels and tyres (some foams, Yellow rally blocks etc), front cvd's, spare esc, spare servo, spare pinions, loads of spare bearings, losi mini 8 roll bars, lots of spare screws and a host of spare parts. Arms, spurs, gears etc
The car itself is fitted with a 60 amp hobbywing EzRun esc and the spare unbranded motor and is very quick if you wish to turn the punch and your end points up. I've also fitted the Carisma pro pistons to it last month. It handles really well and is a competitive car
The only thing that's not included are my custom wing mounts, I have the standard ones included. Also my yellow wheels.
Strangley the Wheel transmitter and receiver picture hasn't saved to my phone but i will take another and upload it.
Cheers
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I'll get loads of pictures this week to upload on here to show you lot what your missing
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A visit to the Eurotech Arena should be on your list of top 10 things to do before you die
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Oh nice, it fit's properly! Yeah I think i remember now, you have to have the overhang of the wire mounting plate to give you more room over the servo post.
Yeah like RCMonkee says we will be at the track by 6pm to set up. I'm aiming for 5.30. Come up and enjoy the racing
The only thing I would suggest is getting one of those clip on heat sinks for the motor and a fan. They get crazy hot hot hot.
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Just to give the thread a bump
Anything going on in the world of GTB's? Anyone fitted anything new
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Yeah thats the way you want to mount it :), that's spot on! You can push the esc under the top deck a little more or is your servo mount stopping it? It will go under a bit more if you wanted it too.
I've not had a chance to get a picture of mine close up but here's a recent one that shows it from a fairly decent angle. I'll get a better one tomorrow.
Also, as your esc is sensored you should get a Carisma sensored motor fitted in there. The way the power is put down is just so so smooth
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5 hours ago, monkeyboy_uk said:
Yeah that's the exact one I have.
A picture would be great. I've scratched my head thinking about how to get it to fit.
Ok so yeah it will deffo fit. I'll get a picture of mine for you.
Also while I remember, do you have the servo mounts in the normal position or is one in the normal and one in the flipped round position. Your need to flip the mount round onto the other side of the servo fixing points to get the esc to fit better, if you've not done this your need to drill a small hole in the chassis to fix the Thumbs mount to. The esc fits in with the sensor port facing the servo.
I'll get a picture, it will be easier lol
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19 hours ago, monkeyboy_uk said:
Sounds good. I have figured out the issue with the servo mounts. It seems that the ESC is a bit too big to allow the thumbs mounts to go in their normal place. They have been shoe horned in with the wrong screws and then split.
There's a Hobbywing 10BL60 in the car at the moment. I guess I will need a smaller ESC.
Do any of you use the thumbs designs mounts and what ESCs do you use?
Once I get this sorted i'll be down.
Ah yeah that can happen, also if the screws are too wide, this weakens the mounts too. I use some short thing screws and the mounts do hold fine. Is the ESC that you run sensored? is it the one like in the link below? If it is i run the same esc with the thumbs design mounts. It is tight but it all fits in ok, you just need to be creative on what way round it all goes lol. I'll get a picture of mine for you.
You don't need a different esc, it will all fit in
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On 14/01/2017 at 16:16, monkeyboy_uk said:
I've just bought a used GTB, never raced before. Only been bashing for the last year so thought I would give racing a go.
The servo mount disintegrated on me though, it's one of the thumbs designs ones. When the new one turns up I will pop down.
Do Eurotec have a good day for practice?
Basically what RCMonkee says. Pop up on a Thursday and bring your car with you. The Thumbs servo mounts are really good but are printed so seem to be a bit weaker then others and after time start to crack/split.
Our 10th and Micro race night is on a Thursday and doors open around 5.30/6 with racing starting by 7.30
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Micro A final from Thursday 16th Dec.
Check out the new kicker jump!! We ran the table top in the middle of the track this week. It worked really well.
Next weeks layout features a bigggggggggggggggggg jump/tabletop/landing all on the straight
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It doesn't look it but the Losi shell must be a fair bit lower than the EMB and GTB shells. The Emb that i have, almost the same car to the Mini 8 runs a Carisma GTB shell and my esc fits under fine, there a fair bit of room between the esc and the top of the shell. The mini 8 shell must be a lot lower because that esc would usually fit in. It might be worth Googling how people fit them?
Is the play from the wheel coming from a bearing that broke or is it coming from the hex? It might just need a washer between the hex and the wheel to pack it out a little. Thumbs design do crush tubes that go between the bearings but not sure if they fit the mini 8?
It might just be my eyes, i am fairly blind lol but have you still got the protective film on the outside of the wing? Where the stickers are stuck on?
I like the carbon towers! Very posh
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17 minutes ago, bombercountynick said:
Thanks for the pics and info Matty. Can you tell me what that little doobery is what is in the middle of the ESC power leads on my buggy? Can I chop it out, shorten and then resolder the ec3 plug onto the end? Are the 35a heatsinks available to buy separatley?
I have charged my lipo up and she goes! However I'm a tad confused as I was under the impression you had to programme these hobbywing esc's before you use them?! I've only driven it around my kitchen thus far will take it out for a proper test later in the week.
I'm not sure whether I have got the slipper assembly adjusted properly, its on slightly odd gearing and still needs some tweaks.
@Oh How Original it will be going once its all sorted, Im after a yeti / monster truck
I've had to buy spare dif cases, the motor Mount assembly (£22!!!) And a few other bits of plastic due to having to drill rounded screw heads off.
I'm not heavy handed and have a proper Mac bit set, these screws are made of cheese! The rear dif case is scrap again as there's another rounded screw I can't get out now that I will be driling out and replacing tomorrow.
The chassis is too small too cut a slit into the head with a grinder without making a mess!
I've had my metric / imperial bits out and I still can't decide what the proper size of the hex heads are.
It may be fun to use but its a pain in the arse to work on, I'm a bit of a perfectionist hate rounded bolts I don't like running anything thats bodged so I think I'm better cutting my losses on this thing before I lose my sanity
Hi yeah, they are the capacitors/power cap for the ESC, they keep the input power going into the esc smooth, or at leas that's how i understand them working. If you chop them out you will need to replace them with some more. The ones that you see on the top the my servo are made by Hobbywing and i bought them from MB Models (link below). The ones that are with the esc are a bit of a nightmare in such a small space.
https://www.rccarshop.co.uk/electrics/power-caps/hw86030030-hobbywing-power-capacitor-p
I've not seen the 35 amp heat sinks sold separate, you might need to buy a 35 amp esc to get one but tbh if you can make the 60 amp esc fit then just stick with that and it's original heat sink. Nah you can use the esc straight out the box. The ESC will be set to factory settings so the punch will be fairly high, i think factory is either 6 or 7 out of a possible 9. Your have the Low Voltage cut off set to i think 3.4v and the over heat protection is on from factory. If you need a program card, either one below works with your esc.
I race a Carisma GTB so all the technical stuff like the slipper on the Losi / EMB needs to be answered by someone else, i'm pretty clueless on this model lol. Although i have both an EMB and a mini 8 i don't race them but the electric side of things i know well.
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Slightly better angle, if you can get it something like this your fit it in.
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That's the one in the EMB. Don't ditch that esc. They are extremely good!
If you cut the wires to a short as you think you can get away with that will also help loads with spacing things.
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Remove the fan, we run those esc's at the nationals and they very very very rarely get hot enough to cut out without a fan. I can't remember a time when mine cut out. With the fan removed it should fit under the shell.
I run the same in my EMB. I run a sensored Carisma setup in my GTB now but i used to run the same esc in that and ive never run a fan on them.
You can also run the heat sink from the 35 amp version, this is slightly lower still and again, your find it very hard to get it thermal. I'll upload some pics of mine.
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We have created an event for the race night that falls between Christmas and New Year, Thursday the 29th December.
Basically the idea is to run a more relaxed night with an earlier setup, slightly earlier start and a slightly later finish. We will also run an extra round, maybe 2 if time is on our side
. It's also a good chance for anyone who has been thinking about coming to race with us to come up.
The layout will be epic, fast, flowing and totally sweet!! Both Micro and 10th 2wd/4wd buggies are welcome up.
Here's the event details
https://www.facebook.com/events/393026844362941/
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12 hours ago, Si Coe said:
I've used my GT24B quite a bit and its far more versatile than its tiny size suggests. Mines been to the local skate park a few times and even race on a couple of 1/10th astroturf tracks. But one area continues to niggle me and that is the tyres. They are really soft - and need to be if you put a 2S lipo in as with mine, but as a result wear out really quickly. Its not just the very limited tread pattern disappears fast, the tyres themselves are shot in no time. I'm used to super soft tyres from racing, but this is a pure basher so the brief tyre life makes no sense. Yes new ones are cheap, but that doesn't make it less frustrating.....
Do you reckon you could make up a set of foams out of say a GT12 set, cut them up and glue them round? They would be no use for outside on gravel or mud but would be ok indoors on a few surfaces?
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This is a friend of mines car, he has a 24b shell sprayed up in his colours
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16 hours ago, A Return said:
Following and initial discussion of buying the cat a toy -> rc car, ive now looked into it and it seems there is a fair bit of choice out there. my intital thought were of a losi 1/24 scte brushless, but the price is putting me off, i then looked at ECX, which was promising as they look great but none are brushless (initialy this was for the cat, but now im going to make it a worthwhile purchase, otherwise id just get an rc mouse) then i started looking at carisma and wltoys offerings and now im really confused and is there anything else ive missed in 1/36 1/24 scale?, so much choice! Im leaning towards the carisma 1/24 rally, but if anyone has any advice, or horror stories to help steer me in the right direction for something quick, durable, reliable, and nimble in tighter spaces, id like to hear them!
I can only speak for the Carisma GT24's buggy as i've never had a go with any of the other small scale brands. The Carisma ones though are really good and great fun for the money, i think they are around £75 or £80. There's a few guys i know who have upgraded theirs a bit, you can fit a 2's lipo, alloy shocks etc etc. They have also got them working with sticks instead of the wheel transmitter that's supplied. Spares support seems to be good, Carisma are very good with their spares on their other scale/classes.
I race a Carisma GTB and the quality is extremely good and strong. These are just the same but smaller
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Alright everyone, here's an update on our micro racing
. Below are a few pics and a vid of last Thursday's A final WE ALSO HAVE A CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR RACE NIGHT ON THIS MONTH. DECEMBER 29TH, PUT THAT IN YOUR DIARY!
https://www.facebook.com/South-West-Indoor-RC-262447823948047/
He struggles with that controller though ^^^^^^^^^^^
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We will be having some more Micro madness this Thursday evening if there's anyone around Plymouth that wants to join us
Racing from 7.30
SWIRC.......New venue.....and it's MASSIVE!
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If you are ever down this way then pop in!
We race 10th buggies, 2wd and 4wd. Also Micros, we still have a strong following for the Micros & LWB micros ☺